Thomas Capricelli archive
Category: Gentoo
December 2, 2011
Celery init scripts for Gentoo
I’m using django-celery on a project. The only difficult part was that gentoo ebuilds would not provide init scripts. It might be that some ebuilds in some obscure overlay provides those, but this was far too far away from the mainstream portage tree for me. Yes, the documentation about celery has some scripts using supervisord, […]
November 14, 2011
New lightweight admin-oriented linux kernel mercurial mirror
On most servers I’m responsible for, I use to compile my own kernels. Instead of downloading/applying patches, which is cumbersome, I was using the (now broken) mercurial mirror http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6 It was great as i just had to do something like “hg pull -u; hg up -r v2.6.xx” to update my tree. Though, this has several […]
November 9, 2011
EmergeActivity gets a graphical interface: releasing 2.0
I’m still using this small utility that displays the activity of ’emerges’ on the misc gentoo boxes I’m admin for. I’ve wanted to add a graphical interface for very long, but did not have the time… until recently. So here it is. It is available for download from the homepage and as a mercurial clone.
September 18, 2011
A small step forward for the mercurial activity plugin, releasing version 2.0
As time goes, my mercurial ‘activity’ plugin has got more and more options. Useful and requested options of course, but still it kinda clobber the –help output and it is more and more cumbersome to play with. This is why I have introduced a new frontend, based on Qt, to play/decide about those options. First, […]
May 13, 2011
How to detect Altivec availability on linux/ppc at runtime
It is easy to find information on how to detect the availability of the different SSE instructions sets on the x86 platform.. but this get trickier when you’re looking after AltiVec. This page provide some code and a link explaining why methods based on try and catch exception are bad: http://freevec.org/function/altivec_runtime_detection_linux I did few modifications […]
October 4, 2010
announcing qxv
Well… you know how it is, you get used to a tool, and even if some brand new software is now available, you keep on using this old stuff. In his case, i’m speaking of xv, whose last release was in 1994. It’s still my default viewer for all image formats in my KDE/firefox/whatever settings. […]
April 3, 2010
Announcing colibri 1.0 alpha1, a mailing list manager with a django based web interface
It has been more than one year now that I’m running my own mailing list software here at freehackers, and I think it is now time to release a first preview of it. Let me introduce Colibri 1.0 alpha1 Colibri is a free software (GPL), based on python and Django. It’s not feature complete, but […]
January 10, 2010
Playing with clang and Qt
You might know that there’s a new kid in the C++ compilers list ; clang. Llvm has been around for quite some time, but until recently the only way to make use of it was through the somehow cumbersome llvm-gcc which binds the gcc C/C++ frontend to the llvm backend. People (mostly Apple) have been […]
November 22, 2009
How to use flex and bison with qmake (my own way)
qmake (sort of) supports lex/yacc, but modern people prefer to use flex/bison. If you google, you can find some tricks like convincing qmake that yacc is spelled ‘bison’ and so on. Morever qmake supports for lex/yacc has several drawbacks, such as weird naming scheme, and (when using the tricks), dependencies are not building files in […]
November 10, 2009
Wonders from a KDE fan and developer about some KDE design choices
Technologies going forward.. Twenty years ago, I was reading some books about Unix at the local library. By the time, it was really difficult for me to see, touch, or test an actual unix system and reading books was the closest I could get. I remember that among the numerous very good ideas ™ in […]